Standard Incompatible with IE8

[ben-crowhurst]

HTTP PATCH Method not supported :(

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/13240

[tanmayambre]

+1

[steveklabnik]

While I'm sympathetic to browser support, our primary audience isn't browsers, it's other API clients.

We can't not use PATCH here, as it's the correct HTTP verb.

[ben-crowhurst]

May the standard host a section stating HTTP PUT is ok as long as its a complete resource document?

[ziyualexanderwang]

+1

[gogs2020]

+1

[juniorhamish]

+1

[gr0uch]

Seems like a popular request. For browsers that don't support PATCH, they should be able to send custom headers, such as X-Request-Method to bypass the method problem.

I disagree that the primary audience isn't browsers, considering that Ember Data is a major consumer. I agree that it should use PATCH though.

[shotsyjr]

+1

[steveklabnik]

I certainly don't want to talk down the Ember Data case, it is very important! I just mean correctness comes first, then possible hacks for compatibility.

[hhware]

May the standard host a section stating HTTP PUT is ok as long as its a complete resource document?

@ben-crowhurst, PUT is OK for anything, see http://jsonapi.org/faq/#wheres-put

[ChrisDavison]

+1

[dgeb]

I don't think we need anything normative in the spec to allow for this. This seems like a perfect candidate for an extension, which would allow servers to eventually phase out support.

[ethanresnick]

I'm +1 on @dgeb's and @steveklabnik's sentiment that we shouldn't spend too much effort worrying about this, as we're doing the correct thing and the problem will solve itself as IE8 fades out over time. That said, a recommendation for how to solve this (if there's a simple way) could be a really big win for the spec adoption at relatively little cost.

For example, what if we recommended that clients wanting to do updates over PUT use the X-HTTP-Method header with their requests to instruct the server to treat the PUT as a PATCH, and we could recommend that server's support this header on PUT endpoints. Again, it'd just be a recommendation (no base spec changes) but could help adoption considerably.

[mandalae]

+1